A few times recently I have seen a few decent sized fish in the river and I have also seen very small fish fighting their way up a slow, shallow weir. This week has been different. I have now seen decent sized fish trying to leap out of the foaming water of the weir to get up river.
This one seemed to burst out and flew through the air before falling back down and washed back into the weir. As usual click on the image to see a larger version on flickr.
It seemed an impossible task because of all the heavy rain we had had. The water flowing over the weir was very fast.
This is quite close in to te bank on the Baildon side as it gets pushed back into the weir.
Look at the water spraying off the head of this one as it fights against the current.
Over towards the middle the fish seemed to be tossed around a bit more.
There were obviously several of them – two are trying to get through here.
I am going to go down a few more times. The river is very fierce at the moment. I don’t think the fish can get through. Hopefully I will see some more when it calms down a bit.
Having seen these shots I now have a better idea of how to photograph them. The biggest problem is the speed. The fish appeared and disappeared so quickly that more than 97% of my shots were just of foaming water.
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